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| tinkerer:
This is going to be a very long project. It will be attempted in spurts, until I get dedicated time in the shop after football season. In general tools topics I started a thread on a new find that has lead me to this project of making a taper so I will have more choices in tools and am able to get the big 3 jaw chuck out of the way. I started by verifying that I can match the taper with the compound. It took about 20 minutes to set up and I am quite confident I can match the taper within .001 +-.0005. Bogs, I know what you mean by hard on the hands cranking the compound. I have a hunk of steel large enough for what I have in mind. The next step is to get all of the dimensions together and devise a plan to do the actual turning. The picture is of the initial setup matching the taper. It is academic, because I will have a lot of turning before I get to this point. Wish me luck, If I am successful, it may give total newbies confidence to attack anything. |
| raynerd:
Good luck - Darren had a nice thread showing his setup for turning the MT for his RT adaptor: http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=1390.0 |
| tinkerer:
Thanks for that link. I will review all I can find when I get to the point of actual turning the taper. |
| Gerhard Olivier:
Good luck Tinkerer leave some extra lenght of stock and it gives the chance to cut any errors of with minimal loss. ( Mine was right only after 4th reset.) Gerhard |
| bogstandard:
Tink, Even though you might not get it right first time, every time you do something new, you learn from it. If you do bugger it up, you will learn not to do it that way again. I'm sure you will succeed though, just take your time, and think about what you are doing, and I hope your hands don't ache too much. Bogs |
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